These are my notes on getting RabbitMQ up and running on Windows. Everytime I do this install there are new
gotchas. I’ll update this with any new findings

Download Erlang and install

Download RabbitMQ and install

Check if this file C:\Windows.erlang.cookie and this file C:\Users\youruser.erlang.cookie are equals. If not, copy C:\Windows.erlang.cookie to C:\Users\youruser.erlang.cookie

Run: RabbitMQ sbin command prompt as administrator.

Run: “rabbitmq-service remove”

Run: “rabbitmq-service install”

Run: net start rabbitmq

Run: rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Run: rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_shovel

open the management portal http://localhost:15672

Queues are great!

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My name is Deon Heyns and I am a developer learning things and documenting them in realtime. Python, Ruby, Scala, .NET, and Groovy are all languages I have written code in. I appeared in the New York Post once. I host my code up at GitHub and Bitbucket so have a look at my code, fork it and send those pull requests.